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Executive Director of the New York State School Boards Association Tim Kremer says that's a far cry from the $ 2 billion in additional state aid his group requested.

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The end state the group agrees on is to get MREs into the hands of as many starving people as possible and to provide at least minimal medical aid to the sickest members of the population.

I would like to acknowledge what is a long list: Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), the Small Business Administration (SBA), the Office of the New York Attorney General, the New York State Department of Financial Services, the New York Legal Assistance Group, Staten Island Legal Services, the Legal Aid Society, MFY Legal Services, various bar associations, New York City Department of Small Business Services, Center for New York City Neighborhoods, Neighborhood Housing Services of Staten Island and the Northfield Local Community Development Corporation.

«In theory, under [the CSPA], the U.S. government is supposed to be able to block military aid that otherwise would have gone to the states on the basis of their child recruitment,» explains Tim Molyneux, the Child Rights Program Manager at Child Soldiers International, an international advocacy group that works to end the use of child soldiers.

I volunteered at a hospice for women with AIDS run by a group of Missionaries of Charity and it was exactly as you'd expect any such organization in the United States to be.

Food and Drink Industry Ireland (FDII), the Ibec group, has said the increased likelihood of a hard and disruptive Brexit, and a fracture of the single market demands a series of exceptions from EU state aid rules for the Irish agri - food and drink sector.

Because, they asserted, the media, ably aided and abetted by Dr. Ann McKee of the Department of Veterans Affairs and Boston University's CTE Center, along with the PBS series, Frontline, had for years been using the results of autopsies of the brains of a small, self - selected group of former athletes to create a «sensationalized state of fear» about CTE.

While the super PAC backed by the statewide teachers union faltered in aiding Democrats in down - ballot state Senate races, the education reform group StudentsFirstNY is taking a victory lap today as the chamber will largely remain the same.

Instead, member states have shown an increasing tendency to operate on their own or in like - minded groups, and focus on inward - looking aid policiesdriven by national interests and priorities.

At noon, a coalition of groups announce a new alliance to fight for passage of the Medical Aid in Dying Act, state Capitol, outside Senate Chambers, Albany.

Two groups, Progressive Change Campaign Committee (PCCC) and Allied Progress, have launched TV ads in the senators» home states that aim to tie the two GOP senators to President - elect Donald TrumpDonald John TrumpGOP lawmakers want Trump to stop bashing Congress US ends aid for northwest Syria: report FBI informant met with three Trump campaign advisers: report MORE's Cabinet and White House staff picks.

Just last week, he won the endorsement of The New York Times as well as other left - of - center groups as they criticized Hochul's past opposition to state aid for illegal aliens and her 100 percent rating from the National Rifle Association, according to the New York Post.

Advocates, including the roughly two dozen groups that support the City Council legislation, promoted a state plan to reduce new HIV infections in New York from the current roughly 3,000 a year to 750 by 2020, which they say would «end» AIDS as an epidemic in New York.

«This is just another excuse from Gov. Andrew Cuomo for why it is he absolutely refusing to fairly and adequately fund high need schools in the state,» said Billy Easton, the executive director of the AQE, a group that has gotten under Cuomo's skin over the years by pushing him to hike school aid under the terms of a lawsuit over funding.

School districts, in particular, should not expect anything approaching a repeat of this year's record $ 1.5 billion (6.5 percent) state aid increase — although advocacy groups will surely demand it.

Meanwhile, a budget watchdog group said the state could still spend more money on the poorest schools and save hundreds of millions of dollars if only it reconfigured the formula for distributing school aid.

A campaign backed by CUNY's faculty union, the Working Families Party, New York Public Interest Research Group and others is calling on the state to provide $ 2 billion for CUNY, with $ 784 million per year going to replace tuition not currently covered by federal aid at the system's two - and four - year colleges.

New York State Assemblyman Al Stirpe, D - Cicero, said he would donate $ 2,500 he received from COR Development and Aiello to Vera House, a Central New York group that aids victims of domestic and sexual violence.

The recently passed state budget, hailed by Gov. Andrew Cuomo as «the best plan the state has produced,» was «woefully short» of fulfilling the promises made to the HIV / AIDS community, according to Charles King, CEO of Housing Works, an HIV / AIDS advocacy group.

ALBANY — Several education groups are criticizing Gov. Andrew Cuomo's proposal that New York's largest school districts submit school - level funding plans for state approval or risk losing increases in aid.

The Democratic election commissioners have formed a working group that would aid in developing an early voting program for the state's 62 counties.

Gerry Geist, the group's executive director, said state aid to two key funding pots has failed to keep up with inflation.

The task force included senior staff from the state and New York City health departments, academics, and advocates from social services, LGBT, and AIDS groups across the state.

As New York State budget talks reach their final days, and perhaps even hours, a group of Hispanic lawmakers is pushing for the inclusion of the Dream Act in the budget, It would offer college aid to children of undocumented immigrants who were born in the country.

Several aid organizations and pro-immigrant groups are pressuring the Canadian government to pull out of a controversial program which turns away almost all refugees coming in through the United States.

Students, labor leaders, and citizens» groups are calling on the State Senate to pass the New York DREAM Act, which would give undocumented youth access to state financial aid like the Tuition Assistance ProState Senate to pass the New York DREAM Act, which would give undocumented youth access to state financial aid like the Tuition Assistance Prostate financial aid like the Tuition Assistance Program.

A former top state agriculture regulator used his position to steer $ 100,000 in aid to a nonprofit group that employed his wife as a consultant, according to an IG report obtained by the NYT.

The recently passed state budget, hailed by Cuomo as «the best plan the state has produced,» was «woefully short» of fulfilling the promises made to the HIV / AIDS community, according to Charles King, CEO of Housing Works, an HIV / AIDS advocacy group.

Coleman is a member of the Transgender Advisory Group assembled by the state health department's AIDS Institute to develop recommendations for addressing trans community needs in Governor Andrew Cuomo's Ending the Epidemic Blueprint.

Not - for - profit law firm, MFY Legal Services, wants a judge to force the state Department of Health to reveal how it approved the Allure Group's purchase of Rivington House, a nursing home for AIDS patients in the Lower East Side and CABS Nursing Home in Brooklyn, papers filed in Manhattan Supreme Court reveal.

AIDS groups have been fighting for nearly a decade to change state law to apply the cap to housing assistance for people with AIDS.

Not for profit groups that contract with New York to provide services like home health care and aid to the disabled say Medicaid payments from the state need to rise if they are ever to afford the minimum wage increase.

In order to aid the group achieve effective mobilization, the governor announced the release of N9 million for the exercise across the 18 council areas of the state.

Rallying at the Capitol Tuesday a day ahead of Gov. Andrew Cuomo's state - of - the - state address, representatives of the groups aiding the poor say the state's richest 1 percent now account for 35 percent of all income in a disparity they say hasn't been seen since America's Great Depression.

Federal economic stimulus aid helped close an estimated $ 162.5 billion in budget gaps among the 50 states in 2010, the report stated, citing a study by the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, a Washington - based policy research group.

The proposal was strongly supported by organizations of state and city judges as well as the Legal Aid Society and most advocacy groups at the four - hour hearing in Manhattan.

In a letter sent Monday to Gov. Andrew Cuomo and legislative leaders, the New York State Educational Conference Board — a group of seven organizations including the New York State School Boards Association and New York State United Teachers — asked state officials to clarify what aid estimates schools should use when they are developing their own budgets for the upcoming fiscal State Educational Conference Board — a group of seven organizations including the New York State School Boards Association and New York State United Teachers — asked state officials to clarify what aid estimates schools should use when they are developing their own budgets for the upcoming fiscal State School Boards Association and New York State United Teachers — asked state officials to clarify what aid estimates schools should use when they are developing their own budgets for the upcoming fiscal State United Teachers — asked state officials to clarify what aid estimates schools should use when they are developing their own budgets for the upcoming fiscal state officials to clarify what aid estimates schools should use when they are developing their own budgets for the upcoming fiscal year.

She says her group will educate lawmakers about public support for the legislation and about aid - in - dying laws in other states.

The Conference Board — an umbrella group of school boards, administrators, parent - teachers associations and the New York State United Teachers (NYSUT)-- said New York's school districts would need a minimum state aid boost of $ 1.2 billion next year to maintain current servState United Teachers (NYSUT)-- said New York's school districts would need a minimum state aid boost of $ 1.2 billion next year to maintain current servstate aid boost of $ 1.2 billion next year to maintain current services.

A collection of school groups, including New York State United Teachers and the New York State School Boards Association, is calling on Gov. Andrew Cuomo to release the proposed education aid runs for the 2015 - 16 fiscal year.

In April 2016, Conservative MPs Kelly Tolhurst and William Wragg, Labour MP and Chair of the Britain - Palestine All Party Parliamentary Group Richard Burden and former Minister of State in the Department of Health and Crossbench Peer, Lord Warner visited the West Bank on a Caabu and Medical Aid for Palestinians delegation.

Some groups condemned the governor for calling on districts to direct more of their state aid to their neediest schools — an exhortation that seemed at odds with his history of fighting the state's Foundation Aid formula, which directs more money to the state's poorest school districts and which advocates argue is itself underfundaid to their neediest schools — an exhortation that seemed at odds with his history of fighting the state's Foundation Aid formula, which directs more money to the state's poorest school districts and which advocates argue is itself underfundAid formula, which directs more money to the state's poorest school districts and which advocates argue is itself underfunded.

After all, the group said in a paper backing up its aid proposal, «New York's fiscal outlook has improved substantially» and «state budget surpluses are projected through 2018.»

Seven leading education groups went looking for guidance on how New York schools should prepare their financial plans if aid runs won't be released until a state budget agreement is reached.

Civil rights groups, including the Legal Aid Society and tghe New York Civil Liberties Union, have criticized de Blasio, a Democrat, for interpreting the state's decades - old police - officer - secrecy law, known as 50 - a of the Civil Rights Law, more strictly than any mayor in history.

A judge ruled that New York has met its «constitutional obligation» to provide enough aid to eight small - city schools, a key victory for the state in its fight with education groups over school funding.

Lt. Gov. Bob Duffy, ever the embracer of his «cheerleader - in - chief» role for Gov. Andrew Cuomo, told a group of small city and village mayors today in Albany that there's just no room in the state budget to increase local aid to municipalities.

His group collected 4,800 signatures from parents and teachers at charter schools, asking for more money in the new state budget to build more schools, known as facilities aid.

AIDS advocacy groups, including the Gay Men's Health Crisis, stated that the city's most heavily policed neighborhoods are also those with the highest rates of HIV infection — and therefore the greatest need for the protection condoms provide.

Government, the Senate President, Dr. Bukola Saraki, other members of the National and state assemblies as well as groups, organisations, corporate bodies and philanthropists to come to the aid of the ailing girl.